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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 192, NWS Cleveland, OH

October 13, 1999Wayne County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 13, 1999, 5:23 PM EDT for Wayne County, Ohio. It was in force for 52 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Oct 13, 1999, 5:23 PM EDT (21:23 UTC)
Expired: Oct 13, 1999, 6:15 PM EDT
In force: 52 min
Issued by: NWS Cleveland, OH
Area: Whole counties

County Wayne County, OH

The radar

The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 65 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:22 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Oct 13, 5:25 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind	Wooster, OH	Two large trees were blown down on the south side of Wooster. One of the trees landed on a house and caused minor roof damage.

NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Oct 13, 3:45 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 158 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 216 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -269 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 757 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 40 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 300 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 302 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KCLE 132125 RRA
SVRCLE
OHC169-132215-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
523 PM EDT WED OCT 13 1999

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  WAYNE COUNTY IN OHIO

* UNTIL 615 PM EDT

* AT 523 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 3 MILES NORTHEAST OF DALTON...OR ABOUT 14 MILES
  EAST OF WOOSTER...MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...
  ORRVILLE
  DALTON

DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 58 MPH ARE EXPECTED FROM THIS STORM. SEEK
SHELTER IN A STURDY STRUCTURE UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED.

REPORT SEVERE WEAT.HER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY
WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST
OFFICE IN CLEVELAND.

$$

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Cleveland, OH wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Oct 13, 2:30 PM EDT, 2 hours 53 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Oct 13, 2:30 PM EDT, 2 hours 53 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
230 PM EDT WED OCT 13 1999

HAVENT HAD A CHANCE TO TAKE AN IN DEPTH LOOK AT MODELS.  BASICALLY
HAVE FRONT MOVING THROUGH CLEVELAND AROUND 22Z...WITH THE FRONT
PUSHING WELL EAST OF THE AREA OVERNIGHT.  OBVIOUSLY POTENTIAL FOR
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS TONIGHT EAST OF THE FRONT.  MUCH COLDER AIR
PORING IN BEHIND THE FRONT...850 TEMPS DROP TO -2.  WILL STAY FAIRLY
CLOSE TO MOS AS FAR AS TEMPS. NEXT SYSTEM MOVES THROUGH AREA SUNDAY
WITH LINGERING LOW DEVELOPING MONDAY.

.CLE...NONE.

BRAY

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Oct 13, 5:22 PM EDT, 1 minute before

OHZ003-006>010-017>019-027>030-036-037-130945-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
516 AM EDT WED OCT 13 1999

THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH THAT WAS IN EFFECT FOR A LARGE PART OF
NORTHWEST AND NORTH CENTRAL OHIO HAS BEEN CANCELLED.

THE STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS HAVE MOVED INTO NORTHEAST OHIO.
THESE THUNDERSTORMS HAVE BEEN RESPONSIBLE FOR MANY REPORTS OF LARGE
HAIL AND SOME DOWNED TREES AND POWERLINES.

THESE TH(UNDERSTORMS WERE AHEAD OF A STRONG COLD FRONT THAT WAS
MOVING THROUGH OHIO THIS EVENING.

KIELTYKA

The office that day

Everything else NWS Cleveland, OH issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Oct 13, 2:41 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Ottawa	49 min
Oct 13, 2:51 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Sandusky, Seneca	39 min
Oct 13, 2:58 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Erie, Huron	47 min
Oct 13, 3:05 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Marion	40 min
Oct 13, 3:22 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Crawford	38 min
Oct 13, 3:28 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Lorain	62 min
Oct 13, 3:39 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Huron, Richland	51 min
Oct 13, 3:47 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Ashland, Cuyahoga, Medina	58 min
Oct 13, 3:50 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Morrow	50 min
Oct 13, 4:08 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CLE	Richland	37 min
Oct 13, 4:11 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Lake	64 min
Oct 13, 4:18 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Knox	42 min
Oct 13, 4:28 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Ashtabula, Geauga	62 min
Oct 13, 4:34 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Wayne	41 min
Oct 13, 4:37 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Summit	38 min
Oct 13, 4:45 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Medina	30 min
Oct 13, 4:51 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Holmes	54 min
Oct 13, 4:57 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Portage	48 min
Oct 13, 5:07 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Stark	43 min
Oct 13, 5:07 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Trumbull	63 min
Oct 13, 5:16 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Cuyahoga, Geauga, Lake	44 min
Oct 13, 5:25 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Summit	50 min
Oct 13, 5:27 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Ashtabula	63 min
Oct 13, 5:35 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Mahoning	55 min
Oct 13, 5:41 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Portage	49 min
Oct 13, 5:45 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Stark	45 min
Oct 13, 6:03 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Trumbull	42 min

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Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.